johnwen

We do have Norcold but I know where you are talking about.

Thanks MAX Burner, I think I follow you. I see where you have dremeled out the receiver. I think I'll give this project a try. Question for the community...can I leave the Oliver factory fan setup as installed and just find a power source to connect the new fans. And then just set a temp on the Beech remote control that is slightly less than the value that turns the Oliver fan on so that maybe the Beech fans will keep the Oliver fan from ever coming on? I'd really like to avoid any rewiring of the original setup..an electrician I AM NOT! Thanks for all the help, John

Thanks, Bill :)

Sorry...got 2 of the same pictures in there

Hi dhaig, We are hull 996, also 2022 elite2. It appears there is not enough room to mount this fan on the upper vent. The space above the condenser coil has a slanted roof that interferes with the upper mounting of the fans. Yours must be the same design. How did you get yours in that space? From what I can see in your pictures it appears the 2 top mounting screws/tabs are just screwed into the upper slanted panel. Is that correct? I can get the fan assy into the space behind where the screen mounts to the frame but I need the bottom of the fans up off the fins and tubing as it gets pretty hot there at times. Is it possible to post a picture of the lower section to see the mounting of those lower screws? I wonder if that slanted piece of fiberglass/plastic can be modified to give me a little more room in that area. After looking at your picture a little closer, yours might not be slanted like mine is. Thanks, John

Congrats Jill & Doug, Safe travels :)

Good luck with the drilling, Dave :) John

Now that would be a challenge for us! Tailgates don't count lol. John

Indeed! I don't think it did much, but any is better than none. John

Amarillo TX at Oasis RV Park. Picture from yesterday morning (Amarillo by morning?) 74 forecast for this afternoon...gotta love it! John

If I possessed your physical attributes I would have those 30 pounders as well :) And you read our minds concerning the Big Texan! But not the 72 oz. Sadly we are unable to make the rally since Oliver service (annual maintenance) was booked up and we have our revisit with CGI mid April. We have a plan for northern Maine and the Havelina Rally in Texas with Ohio golfing in between. So the month between CGI and the Oliver rally is no longer time we can spare. You and Kathy have a blast out there John

We've had issues with mopeka and pro smart so I went back to my fail safe plan :) We have 2 x 20lb bottles and open only 1 at a time. If the open 1 runs out, we switch over to the other and go fill the empty. We have a pretty good idea if we need to fill before we run out. Cold weather usually depletes ours in 1 week and if we don't run the furnace we get about 3 weeks. If we cooked every meal in the trailer I'm sure we wouldn't get close to 3 weeks. 2 to 3 meals, and coffee most mornings, a week is about all we do inside. If anywhere close to those times we usually stop, when convenient, and top off. We ran out this morning :)BTW and knew right away in Tucumcari, switched over and all was fine. We were stuck in those 48-63 mph winds for 3 days so I couldn't follow my "gettin' close" plan. Now that we're in 25 degree temps again we'll refill on the way to Amarillo today. Don't get me wrong...if 1 bottle gets depleted, we fill it asap. I'm not trusting my plan with 1 bottle empty. I tried the sensor route and am not spending any more money on them. Works for me so far. BTW...full timers for 4+ years and lovin' it :) If I was part-timin' I wouldn't have a clue as my time line would be tossed out the window. John

Was definitely worth it to us mostly because of my Father-in Law...I could see him smiling at us :) If you go, make sure to read the literature posted on the walls along the way!!! John

We did.....on the way to the Q this year. 26 years ago we and the inlaws stopped there and the only one to visit was my late father in law. Since we poked fun at him he wouldn't divulge any details so we had to take a look for ourselves this year. I can only say one thing...."now we know" John

Miss you guys :)

We met them just this afternoon and they indeed made us feel very welcome. We showed up this year before the "big show" is over with hopes of becoming a little more knowledgeable with our solar setup by hanging out with the solar experts/vendors. But after talking for a while with Steve, I think I got lucky concerning all things solar . John

Welcome Scott and Connie! Wen and I are AF retirees as well and have been fulltiming 4 years now (2 in a Casita). Our Ollie (twin beds) seems like a mansion with the extra 6 feet inside vs the Casita. We picked ours up 2 years and 1week ago and have not looked back. This Oliver community is quite amazing and we are very thankful to be part of it. We'll be at the "Q" in a couple of days to reunite with good friends. I know you will be pleased with your new Oliver. No trailer, as you well know, comes problem free but I can tell you that this Oliver community is quite amazing and experienced with handling just about anything. Congrats on your retirement :) Wen and John

You are absolutely right Mossey, I don't know how that last sentence in my last post popped into my head.....a very senior moment

Ollietime, Just for clarification, my problem was on the fwd end (hitch end) of the awning. The rear appeared to be ok throughout the process. If your issue is on the rear end my suggestion may not work for you, I never removed the rear cap so I don't know if there is an adjustment there as well. You should be able to contact Girard if need be. I know their branch in Florida was closed down after their terrible tragedy a couple years ago. John

Ollietime, Read conner77's post as well. It was very helpful to me. BTW, as of today everything is still good with the awning. I have no idea what went wrong with it initially.

Hi Ollietime, My 2022 Hull 996 has the Girard as well. It has a fwd end cap and an aft end cap. I took off only the fwd end cap, you'll see 2 ss screws on the end cap. I don't remember if there are any on top of the end cap. With the end cap removed I found the adjustment screw and rotated it half way in one direction, which made the problem worse. So I went back to the original position and rotated the screw half turn in the other direction and it was good to go. You may need more or less of an adjustment to get yours adjusted to your satisfaction. One word of caution...adjust in small increments as the motor must shut off automatically and you don't want the motor to continue running when the awning is fully retracted as you can burn up the motor. As I recall, I contacted Girard and they walked me through it. Best of luck :) John

Thanks, GJ :)

Good product and now I take them off to service as I lost one during a recent refill. John

We lost one of ours and didn't realize until we saw the rust ring. Ordered 1 and will keep an eye out for future loss..

How long did your Briteways last? We have them in our 2022. So far, so good. We have the Zamp solar controller. We'll be switching to lithiums when we have to. John